A few months after the sudden and overwhelming success of the single Grace Kelly has climbed from web le classifiche di tutta Europa, arriva Life In Cartoon Motion, primo album del giovane e promettente Mika.
Nato a Beirut e fuggito dalla Guerra del Golfo prima a Parigi poi a Londra e infine negli Stati Uniti, Mica Penniman - questo il suo vero nome - ha iniziato a scrivere e cantare da bambino ricevendo una formazione musicale importante sotto la guida di un “severissimo insegnate di canto russo”, componendo brani per spot pubblicitari e incidendo per la Royal Opera House, fino allo scontro con la dura realtà e con le ferree regole del mercato discografico, a cui accenna in quel singolo di esordio che, apparso timidamente su myspace, è diventato in breve, un tale fenomeno mediatico, da creare una spasmodica attesa e curiosità attorno the first album. Compared
- with obvious excesses of enthusiasm - with artists like Freddie Mercury, George Michael and Elton John, Mika in reality, while drawing on the greats of the past and inspired by the '70s and '80s music, has a strong character and a personal style can be expressed freely in Life In Cartoon Motion, a dance album and lively, lit and colorful as its cover.
Ten songs (and two bonus-track) that blend into a lively cauldron pop, funk, disco and hip hop, alternating marches irresistible melancholy ballad surprisingly, by the brilliant Lollypop, built between choral moments next to the characteristic airy falsetto, the enthralling Any Others World, warm ballad string, voice and long-awaited final suggestive, and even 70's disco in the rhythmic relaxation, fun electro-pop in Big Girl, perky piano Stuck In The Middle and entrusted to the final soft sweet and inspired Happy Ending.
Light and joyful, Life In Cartoon Motion, runs through the stories of everyday life glancing ironic, melancholic and sometimes euphoric reality, staging funny characters and funny as the star of Billy Brown, who leaves his wife for love of a man or threatened happily all those who seek his beloved sister in Lollypop.
Solid debut, very cool and nice to listen to the young Mika, already beloved gay icon wins tender for all and sympathy.
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